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title: "wonder how to make your mail encrypted,lets learn how to do it"
date: 2010-07-25
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hey guys , you guys must have seen in movies or heard that mails can be encrypted in such a form that noone else other than who has the key, ofcourse the one you gave the key can decrypt and see it..well it appears too geeky though but its amazingly simple..<br/><br/>in this blog i will show u how this is done.<br/><br/>well you must b wondering what is the need of this well u must not be aware of the fact even your private mail to your friend is being monitored by <strong>national security agency or NSA (us). </strong><br/><br/><strong>well to do this you need a mail client mozilla thunderbird you can download it from<a class="alignright" title="mozilla thunderbird download" href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/" target="_blank">#mce_temp_url#</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>when you install this software you need to setup your account so as this mail client can work.in the following screenshots i will show you how to do it.</strong><br/><br/><strong>first thing you need to do is to configure your mail account so that thunderbird is able to store and configure your mails.for this you need to enable pop and imap in your account</strong><br/><br/><strong><a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb2.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-56" title="tb2" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb2.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a></strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enable imap"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb3.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-57" title="tb3" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb3.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>once you are done with this click on save changes , now we will configure our thunderbird to work as our mail client.i will show you how.<br/><br/>click on the thunderbird icon you just installed, a new window will pop out it will look somewhat like this:<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_55" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="create new account"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-55" title="tb1" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb1.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_58" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="fill in ur details like name ,email id and password"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb4.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-58" title="tb4" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb4.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_59" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="create an account"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb5.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-59" title="tb5" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb5.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_60" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="account ready for use :)"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb6.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-60" title="tb6" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb6.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>now folks your thunderbird is ready to send or recieve your mails ,but to do the encryption you need to download a small sofware that is required to be installed inorder to windows to encrypt your mails. you can download it from<a class="alignright" title="gnupg download" href="http://www.gnupg.org/downloads/" target="_blank">#mce_temp_url#</a><br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_61" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="windows version of gnupg"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb7.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-61" title="tb7" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb7.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_62" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="install gnupg"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb8.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-62" title="tb8" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb8.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="now go to tools &gt; add-ons"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb9.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-63" title="tb9" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb9.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>now we need to enable a plugin called enigmail in thunderbird that is required to do encryption.<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_64" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enigmail"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb101.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-64" title="tb10" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb101.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>first u need to configure your key which u need for encryption<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_74" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="go to open pgp&gt;key management"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb201.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-74" title="tb20" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb201.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_75" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="click on generate"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb211.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-75" title="tb21" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb211.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_76" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="make a key for the account you are using"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb221.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-76" title="tb22" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb221.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_77" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="save the key you just created"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb231.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-77" title="tb23" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb231.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>now as the key creation is done we can proceed and <strong>remember this key creation is just one time affair because your key is valid for 5 years .</strong><br/><br/><strong>now lets create a encrypted mail for this click on write icon on the thunderbird</strong><br/><br/><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br/></span></strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_65" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="write a mail "]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb112.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-65" title="tb11" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb112.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>then click on encrypt or ctrl+shift+E..<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_66" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="configure openpgp"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb121.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-66" title="tb12" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb121.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_67" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enable enigmail(open pgp)"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb131.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-67" title="tb13" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb131.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_70" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="select the key you just created"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb161.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-70" title="tb16" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb161.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_71" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="use the open pgp key you just created"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb171.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-71" title="tb17" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb171.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_72" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="insert the passphase or password you used to make the key"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb181.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-72" title="tb18" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb181.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]<br/><br/>hmmm...<strong>after this long configuration we are finally ready to create a new mail which is encrypted. and guys the gud news is that all this configuration is one time setup.....everytime you need to encrypt your mail press ctrl+shift+E :)</strong><br/><br/><strong>easy right... i will show you a encrypted mail i created some time back using THUNDERBIRD and these settings</strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/><strong> </strong><br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_73" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="a sample encrypted mail"]<a href="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb191.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-73" title="tb19" src="http://gotchacode.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/tb191.png" alt="" width="614" height="345" /></a>[/caption]</div>
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<div class='author'>creativetotalsolution</div>
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<div class='author'>tomzs</div>
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